Channel 3 Entertainment spoke with us about their multiplayer game Foundry, detailing why they chose the first-person perspective, how the process of world-building was, and explaining some of the challenges they face while creating the game.

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Channel 3 Entertainment discusses the development of Foundry, a first-person voxel-based factory automation game. Key topics include the design philosophy of player freedom over prescribed solutions, the technical architecture using a C++ simulation library with Unity as a presentation layer, challenges of lock-step deterministic multiplayer synchronization, procedural world generation with art-directed biomes, and the upcoming train system update. The team draws on lessons from Oxygen Not Included and Don't Starve, emphasizing emergent complexity from simple interacting systems and iterative community-driven development via Early Access.

Channel 3 Entertainment on Creating the Open World Game Foundry